Mac OS X Lion review —
My experience with Lion so far has been, to say the least, mixed. I thought I’d list some of my experiences in the form of a brief review.
Posts Tagged ‘Mac Mini’
My Mac mini-based media centre —
For quite some time I’d been looking forward to building a decent media centre, and after rearranging my flat recently I had a great lounge area, so I went ahead and built it. I’ve read quite a few blog entries about other people’s Mac mini-based media centres over the last few months, and now that [...]
Bash script for configuring specific things on users’ Macs —
Although I’ve got our Mac mini server nicely set up now, there are occasionally things I want to do on users’ Macs which can’t be done or don’t work properly via Server Admin and Workgroup Manager. However, one of the wonderful things about having an office environment consisting entirely of Macs (rather than Windows PCs) [...]
My (inevitable) thoughts about the Apple iPad —
So, the iPad turns out to be a shiny new thing that’s somewhere between an iPhone and a Mac… but (perhaps unfortunately) rather more iPhone than Mac. I was personally hoping it would turn out to be a desirable alternative to a netbook. In some ways, I can see that it has achieved this. It [...]
Mac OS X Server successes —
My first experiences of Mac OS X Server 10.5 were terrible due to it being riddled with bugs. After finishing one install, for example, the very first thing I saw was the Server Admin app trying to start up and then crashing horribly. Nevertheless, I persevered with it on the assumption that it would improve [...]
Integrating computer-based audio with hi-fi —
Back in the olden days I used to be quite a hi-fi ‘buff’, but a few years ago I started to listen to my MP3 collection more than my CD collection. I loved being able to have exactly the songs I liked in my collection without lots of ‘filler’ tracks that you often get on [...]